Rustam Minnikhanov meets with Prime Minister of Luxembourg
27 September 2012, Thursday
Official meeting between President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Jean-Claude Juncker was held at the Kazan Kremlin within the official visit of the Luxembourg delegation to Russian Federation.
Prime Minister of Luxembourg thanked the Tatarstan President for warm reception in Kazan.
“I have read a lot about your beautiful city, and I wanted to see it with my own eyes. Here the past is consistent with the present making a sound foundation for the future,” Jean-Claude Juncker said.
The Tatarstan President said that Prime Minister of Luxembourg set ambitious tasks for developing cooperation. “We should demonstrate good results. We have held a number of meetings and the visit of a large delegation of Luxembourg businessmen to Tatarstan is being planned,” Rustam Minnikhanov said.
Head of republic thanked Jean-Claude Juncker for visiting Kazan.
Rustam Minnikhanov believes that the present visit of Prime Minister of Luxembourg to Russia will consolidate relationships between the two countries.
“We should expand our relationships. Tatarstan and Luxembourg have great potential for interaction in various spheres. Our Government and Luxembourg leadership should create all conditions for developing business contacts,” President of Tatarstan said.
Jean-Claude Juncker believes that Luxembourg companies will make a considerable contribution to Tatarstan’s development.
On 1 April Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Russian Minister of Healthcare Mikhail Murashko introduced Ayrat Farrakhov, who was appointed the Acting Rector of Kazan State Medical University (KSMU) to its staff.
In his speech Mikhail Murashko emphasized that today KSMU is rightfully considered one of the most respected in the country and said:”Ayrat (Zakievich) has been officially appointed the Acting Rector and I am sure that under his leadership the University will maintain the positions it has achieved and, of course, will continue its development.”
On 31 March in the Government House of the republic Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Leyla Fazleeva hold a meeting of the Commission on the Russian language under the Rais of Tatarstan, which considered key issues of supporting and developing Russian language, including new educational initiatives and discussed programmes of popularization of Russian literature and activities to preserve the language heritage.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Azat Ziganshin informed that the regional central cleaning up action will be held in the republic on 25 April and clarified that the location of the national cleanup day will be announced later as the site will be chosen taking into account the opinions of Tatarstan residents.
On 28 March, speaking at a meeting held by Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin in the Government House of the republic with participation of the regional and the Acting Chairman of the State Council of the republic Marat Akhmetov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the regional Deputy Minister of Construction, Architecture and Housing Utilities Sector Damir Shaydullin informed about statistics on the collection of utility bills payments from the population and data on the payment discipline of enterprises and organizations of the republic.